Warning:

This story is yaoi male+male relationship. I mean of course that this story is about Youko Kurama and Hiei, so what do you expect it to be, huh? Save yourselves and run away while you can.

Summary: A pair of notorious thieves steals jewels from right under Mukuros nose. She sends her general Hiei after them. Hiei has quite problems to get at them; but when he does, it triggers off chain of events that none of them could foresee... Yaoi, YKxH

AN / Get ready for a mixture of a little action, drama, romance and a trifle angst with a delicate spicy taste of humor and maybe a piece of lime or tangerine or orange(...?...) for decoration.Well, I havent got the slightest idea what kind of taste it would be, or if I can get all ingredients hold together as a dish. So let me know if I can gain a reputation of a good cook:-) Yay, enough of this. Have fun!.

Prologue

Hiei threw a couple of coins on the bardesk and grabbed the bought food and a bottle of something dark blue. He was disgusted. He could hear the screams of the sluts upstairs, he smelled the stench of filthy drunken demons and the mixture of ki tainted like this gave him a tremendous headache.

Instead of hiring a room in the tavern and getting pesterred by whores looking at him lustfully in their attepmt to attract a potential customer, Hiei decided to find a tree in a harder accessible area of a nearby forest. As he made himself comfortable, he checked the area with his Jagan one more time. The last thing he wanted now was a meaningless fight with some low class demon. As his headache was slowly subsiding, he let out a satisfied sigh and began eating his plain dinner.

The fire demon knew, he needed some kind of plan. He was stalking the crazy fox and his partner for some time now futilely. He needed to get closer to them somehow, anyhow.

He finished eating and rested his back against the trunk.

He closed his eyes and sighed again, as he remembered the castle, his home. Now, that is. Mukuro found Hiei when he was quite young, but not a small child anymore. He thought she was trying to kill him – well, everyone who came near was trying to kill him at that time. Of course, Hiei attacked her, but she was quite persistent. A small smile tickled his lips. Well, 'quite persistent' wasnt the word. She was much more powerful and knew combat techniques that the young half-Koorime had never even dreamt of.

While being unconscious, Mukuro had read his mind and took him for some reason to her castle. With that, the roughest part of Hieis life – his childhood - was over. She tought him how to fight more effective and he was willing to become stronger. When he reached upper A-level, he had a post of Mukuros general. Still, Mukuro was surprised to find out that the fire demon developed a liking for reading, philosophy and thinking in solitude. She probably thought he would grow up to be a brainless killing machine without free will or something.

Hieis smile grew bigger at the recollection of Mukuros face, when she had seen him discussing typical behaviour of those stupid anago youkais with her senior advisors. (Those baka eels had made a mess in one of his favourite hiding places). At that time, he was trying to gain so much information as possible from all sources he could. He was eager to learn about various demon races, their demeanor and of course, their special fighting techniques and how to defeat them. Well, if he did not want to be taught in the middle of a battle with the assistence of a fatal injury, he had to learn somehow.

Therefore he took this stupid mission.

Well, Hiei was now a middle S-class youkai, master of Kokuryuuha and Mukuros heir. (Well, the last part about the heir was not officially announced yet.) But he was still young, despite the fact that he had experienced things that would be enough for three or four human lives. In Mukuros eyes he was still a cub, even if he was nearly hundred years old. Therefore he went after the infamous three times older Youko Kurama and his partner Kuronue, when they showed up in their territory and stole the jewels Mukuro wished to give Yomi in appreciation of his attitude in negotiation. She was nettled and ordered Hiei to take care of it, no matter the time or means.

Hiei had heard the rumours about Kuramas wits and power. And he saw it as a good occasion to test his skills – 'Kurama would make a perfect adversary,' that was what he had been thinking.

"Maybe too perfect, actually." The young fire demon tried to find a way, how to get close to Kurama without suspicion. He had to avow; he was impressed. He had spent a week in attempt to find Kura and Kuro, as he called the pair of thieves for himself. The next weeks taught Hiei more about spying and stalking then his training with Tebiko, Mukuros chief spy. Whats more, he was slowly beginning to feel like a Peeping Tom, because inevitably he started picking up a few information of delicate nature as well. Kuronue, a dark-haired thief with blue eyes was obviously interested in Kuramas partnerhip in more things than just crime. And Hiei had to admit: it was hell of a good choice. Kurama was a teaser and a flirt; he was gorgeous and witty, always full of energy and laughter, careless and free. He was much taller than Hiei, had long silver hair with two fox ears poking out. The tail, matching up the ears gave away clues of the Youkos mood. His finely chiseled body must have been the reason, why the cult of Inari, the Godess of foxes, was so popular: who would not want to worship such a competent deity? It seemed like a law of nature to desire this particular creation of Inari. At least Hiei thought he would too, if he was at Kuros place.

Sure, Kurama was a ladykiller. He didnt need to draw attention, vixen or another female and even male demons were constantly around him almost drooling, when he showed up in public places, but they were always left heartbroken, when the partners-in-crime moved to another place. The silver Kitsune surprised Hiei, though: the fire demon thought, judging according the rumours, that Kurama was something like an incarnated god of sex. The rumours said, he usually seduced 2-3 powerful and attractive demons per week. Hiei just smirked. He could say he knew Kuramas habits by now. The fox liked to enhance those rumours himself, creating the atmosphere of mystery and sensuality around him. He was a legend. But surely not the god of sex. Hiei saw Kurama alone with just one vixen in two months (in Hieis opinion she was too old and too simple to be his lover), and he knew his relationship with Kuronue was not proceeding that fast. Kitsune loved Kuronue as a friend, he trusted him with his life. But the fire demon could tell that something about chimeras advances made Kurama feel uneasy, though he had never showed anything in front of Kuro, he even let the chimera hold him from time to time.

It was already past midnight, when the fire demon fell asleep. He was under the spell of the mistress of dreams, when something crossed his mind and startled him out of his rest.

His eyes flew open as a sudden ray of light out of nowhere illuminated the interior of his skull – and Hiei finally found the solution for his problem. Content, with a trace of a smile on his lips, the fire demon pulled his black cloak tighter around him and fell again into sleep.

End of prologue

AN/ OK, this is the beginning. The first chapter is prepared for coming up in a week or so.If you liked it so far, stay with me.

And…This is supposed to be fun. It would be kinda nice to know it served its purpose. You know, to make your days a bit brighter. So please be gentle and dont 'Rose Whip!'me.

Mata ne. Mari